bòrd

See also: bord, Bord, borð, bórd, and börd

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish bord (“edge, side, border, brink; board, table; seat, bench”) (compare Irish bord, Manx boayrd), borrowed from Old English bord (“plank, table”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [b̊ɔːɹʃd̪̊], /pɔːɾʃt̪/

Noun

bòrd m (genitive singular bùird, plural bùird)

1. table (furniture)
2. plank, board
3. board (of directors, etc.)
4. (nautical) deck (of a ship)

Derived terms

• anart-bùird (“tablecloth”)
• bòrd-beulaibh (“starboard”)
• bòrd-cùlaibh (“port (ship's side)”)
• bòrd-dubh (“blackboard”)
• bòrd-eun (“bird table”)
• bòrd-sgrìobhaidh (“desk”)
• bòrd-stiùiridh (“board of directors”)
• cairt-bhòrd (“cardboard”)
• spàin-bhùird (“tablespoon”)
• teanas-bùird (“table tennis”)

 

Verb

bòrd (past bhòrd, future bòrdaidh, verbal noun bòrdadh, past participle bòrdte)

1. (nautical) tack
2. board (a ship, etc.)

   Bhòrd iad an long. ― They boarded the ship.

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Lenition
bòrd	bhòrd
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• “bòrd” in Edward Dwelly, Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, 1911, →ISBN.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “bord”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language